Consistency of border-ownership cells across artificial stimuli, natural stimuli, and stimuli with ambiguous contours

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 44, 2016, Pages 11338-11349

  Hesse, Janis K ^a,b   Tsao, Doris Y ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border ownership; Feedback; Figure ground; Illusory contours; Natural; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LUMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SHORT DURATION STIMULUS TEST; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84994477636     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1857-16.2016     Document Type: Article

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